Yangcai arm golden turtle, insect name, distributed in Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places. It is a national second-class protected animal in China, and its number is rare.
The Yangcai Arm Golden Turtle is endemic to China and is not distributed abroad, but there are other arm golden turtles in Asia, such as the Taiwan Arm Golden Turtle, the Thai Arm Golden Turtle, the Turkish Ji Arm Golden Turtle, the Gecai Arm Golden Turtle, the Mai Cai Arm Golden Turtle, and the Brown Arm Golden Turtle. However, the ornamental value of the color arm golden turtle is high, but whether its value can reach more than 100,000 yuan is debatable. The variety was once rumored to be extinct.
The Yangcai arm golden turtle lives in evergreen broad-leaved forests, the adults lay eggs in the decaying wood chips soil, the ovoids are milky white, the hatching larvae have yellowish heads, and the thorax and abdomen are white and curved into a C-shape.
China declared it extinct in 1982, but in recent years there have been reports of the discovery of the insect. At an auction held in Beijing in 2001, a specimen of a 4.4-centimeter-long Yangcai arm golden turtle was sold for 200,000 yuan. The price of live animals is as high as hundreds of thousands of yuan.
More experts frankly said, "This insect is sold to six figures in the market, which is really a bit too much." As a national second-level protected animal, the painted-armed golden turtle cannot be traded according to law, and at the same time, as an insect at the bottom of the food chain, once it is caught on a large scale, a slight change in the number of wilds will have a great impact on the ecological balance. In recent years, with the continuous strengthening of publicity and education on biodiversity conservation, cracking down on illegal crimes of destroying wildlife resources and protecting wild animals, the golden turtle with the color arm has been effectively protected.